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authorCliff Miller <cbm@whatexit.org>2009-06-11 18:30:32 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-06-13 01:25:06 +0100
commit24c727d3c26122c4f1c29381e7c6f5d96985ccca (patch)
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parentba1c5239bc4b9719a20cedd35a313fa4237e7151 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-24c727d3c26122c4f1c29381e7c6f5d96985ccca.tar.xz
sort: Ignore fields where end position is before the start position
* NEWS: Mention the fix * THANKS: Add Cliff Miller * src/sort.c (keycompare): Ensure lima >= texta * tests/misc/sort: Add 3 corresponding tests Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
truncate -s failed to skip all whitespace in the option argument in
some locales.
+ sort now correctly ignores fields whose ending position is specified
+ before the start position. Previously in numeric mode the remaining
+ part of the line after the start position was used as the sort key.
+ [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning".]
+
** Changes in behavior
ls --color: files with multiple hard links are no longer colored differently